Mel Bochner, Random Numbers #4, 2001, oil on canvas, 22 × 28". © Mel Bochner, Courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery

Don’t Be Cross

J. M. Coetzee concludes his Jesus trilogy
James Camp
George Sidney, Kiss Me, Kate, 1953. Lilli Vanessi (Kathryn Grayson) and Fred Graham (Howard Keel). MGM

Bard Times

James Shapiro’s study of Shakespeare in American culture
Tom Carson
Charleston, West Virginia’s Taylor Books. Photo: Taylor Books.

Tech Support

Helping authors and bookstores as life goes online
Hannah Stamler
Laura Poitras, Citizenfour, 2014.

Meet Me in Moscow

State secrets, Edward Snowden, and the conscientious journalist’s predicament
Jesse Barron
Jill Mulleady, No Hope No Fear, 2016, oil on linen, 22 × 32 1⁄2". Courtesy the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles/Paris

What’s Happening?

Or: How to name a disaster
Elvia Wilk
paper trail
Ottessa Moshfegh. Photo: Jake Belcher
Murmrr to host Ottessa Moshfegh’s virtual book launch; Revisiting Alex Vitale’s The End of Policing
print
The White Queen, season 1, episode 9, 2013. Princess Elizabeth (Freya Mavor) and Queen Elizabeth (Rebecca Ferguson). BBC One
The intoxicating gloom of Philippa Gregory’s historical fiction
Johanna Fateman
print
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, American National Red Cross Collection, LC-DIG-anrc-02548
Katherine Anne Porter’s novella of the 1918 influenza outbreak
Audrey Wollen
interviews
Lydia Millet. Photo: Nola Millet
Lydia Millet discusses her new novel of teens, biblical allusions, and plausible environmental disaster
Christian Lorentzen
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Andres Serrano, Thomas Buda, Hazmat Chemical Biological Weapons Reponse Team (America), 2002, Cibachrome, 44 × 37". © Andres Serrano, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Brussels
Lawrence Wright’s pandemic thriller
Tom Carson
culture
Words of Light
Emily LaBarge
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